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ByteDance-Spun-Off Anew Labs Closes $290M First Round at $1.5B Valuation
Anew Labs (上海新生探途), an AI-driven drug discovery company spun off from ByteDance and based in Shanghai's Yangpu district, has closed an oversubscribed $290 million first-round financing at a $1.5 billi...
ByteDance CEO ties Doubao, Feishu, and Volcano Engine to a larger enterprise push
At the 2026 Feishu Future Unlimited Conference in Beijing on September 15, ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo said that once AI agents reached a usable stage, agents, models, and collaboration environments must...
ByteDance Adds Side Workspace to Doubao for In-Chat Task Execution
ByteDance has updated Doubao's task-oriented interface with a side workspace that keeps a conversation and its working materials on the same screen. The multi-tab panel can open local files, Feishu do...
ByteDance (字节跳动) is reportedly investing up to RMB 10 trillion (over $1 trillion) in its Seed AI div...
ByteDance (字节跳动) is reportedly investing up to RMB 10 trillion (over $1 trillion) in its Seed AI division, explicitly rejecting the distillation shortcut in favor of building frontier models from scra...
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs in a strate...
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs in a strategic push to cut dependence on US-based chip suppliers such as NVIDIA and AMD. The initiative, which...
**ByteDance develops custom CPUs for AI inference amid chip supply crunch**
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is designing proprietary central processing units (CPUs) to support its growing AI infrastructure, three sources told Reuters. The company is pursuing two arch...
ByteDance has raised its 2026 AI capital expenditure budget by 25% to 200 billion yuan ($27.9 billio...
ByteDance has raised its 2026 AI capital expenditure budget by 25% to 200 billion yuan ($27.9 billion), up from the 160 billion yuan ($22.4 billion) planned at the end of 2025. The increase, reported...